Ponnosuke

16431 pts ยท June 27, 2015


Haha, was just going to suggest that :D

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billionaires in the world are made-men. (4/4)

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although this is not a steadfast rule, considering that wealth usually doesn't last more than 3 generations, and that 70% of (3/?)

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who have managed to climb social hierarchies are usually also enriched with the gifts that allowed them to achieve that in the1st place(2/?)

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I would say that they're usually from the upper echelons of society because in general IQ is inherited, and so children of people (1/?)

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Yourself?

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mine it. And by what I mean of the West is a society that values individual liberty, meritocracy, etc (3/3)

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that the current West, while still imperfect, is a miraculous achievement of humanity, & I am very skeptical of any attempts to under-(2/?)

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I would describe myself as someone who is skeptical of all forms of proclaimed authority, cultural or governmental etc. I also believe (1/?)

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been grappling with these issues for their entire careers, and that as a 20 year old rich kid dumb-ass one should have some humility (7/7)

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to recognise that their fantasies have been attempted before with massive failures, and that many people much smarter than them have (6/?)

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nothing Marxists seem to despise more than the actual members of the working class or the poor. Oh also, these kids also usually fail (5/?)

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of their altruism for the poor/working class. However, if you've actually been in the company of Marxists, you'd know that there's (4/?)

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of destroying said hierarchy. But in order to disguise the movement for what it really is - mindless self-indulgence, they say it's out(3/?)

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hierarchy in which they are in the bottom rung (as they are unaccomplished as of yet), and feel a sense of righteousness at the thought(2/?)

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As a former borderline Marxist - it's more a movement filled with young rich energetic kids who are aggrieved that there is a social (1/?)

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Most self-proclaimed communists/socialists *are* bourgeois. Even Antifa today - they're about as bourgeois as it comes.

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Your comment is not as clever as you think it is, especially not enough to copy and paste in reply to multiple comments

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the ethos of an entire group, by quotes I've seen from TV shows or on facebook. (4)

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at least I read the books of political opinions I disagreed with, before I felt I could criticise, instead of just thinking I understand (3)

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itself, with it's own interest - which conflicts with the requirement of a government to only exist to serve it's people. Gosh guys, (2)

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Most Libertarians don't believe in 0 governance, they believe that government shouldn't get so bloated that it becomes an entity onto (1)

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well they're definitely boys

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that refusal to acknowledge this is causing more divisiveness and actually making people less trusting and more tribalistic (6/6)

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not be real, and that the underlying problems are much more complex, and require nuanced understanding and analysis. And possibly (5/?)

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righteous, I urge you to consider the fact that your presumption that 'racism' is the only cause of all of the ills of society may (4/?)

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try to implement new social policies, the likely-hood that you cause more damage than good is astronomical. Without sounding too self (3/?)

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underlying variables and causes, instead of blanketly diagnosing the cause as 'racism'. When you make huge demands on a culture or even(2/?)

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Again, you really aught to read some of his books. He doesn't deny any of those, but he delineates those statistics to discover the (1/?)

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